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Tag: War

Articles

In a Time of Helicopters, by Ben Gidley – 7 January 2026

In September, Donald Trump signed an executive order changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and posted an image

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Articles

Try Me For Treason, by Simon Pirani – 21 December 2025

“Try me for treason. I betrayed your deranged state”, the Russian anti-war protester Andrei Trofimov told the Second Western District Military Court in May. In

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Testing the Limits of State-Directed Mobilization, by Ilya Matveev – 15 December 2025

The Russian economy appears resilient for now, but long-term stagnation is nearly unavoidable When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022,

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Interviews Podcasts

Uncovering the Inner Workings of an AI Genocide. Interview with Yuval Abraham – 4 December 2025

Investigative journalist Yuval Abraham takes us inside his reporting on the systems driving Israel’s mass killing in Gaza over the past two years. He discusses

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Articles

AI-Powered Surveillance Firms Are Gunning for a Share of the Gaza Spoils, by Sophia Goodfriend – 28 November 2025

From +972 Magazine The presence of Palantir and Dataminr at the new U.S. military compound in Israel offers a glimpse of how tech companies are

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Interviews Podcasts

The El Fasher Atrocities – 18 November 2025

In this episode of The Horn, Alan speaks with Julia Steers, investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, about the large-scale atrocities that took place in Darfur’s

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Articles

El-Fasher and the Architecture of International Complicity in Sudan, by Husam Mahjoub – 17 November 2025

The tragedy of El-Fasher, the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in Darfur, was not unforeseen; it was inevitable. From the moment the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

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Capital vs. Sanctions, by Sofron Bliznakov – 5 November 2025

Why do Western technologies continue to fuel Russia’s war machine despite sweeping sanctions? Is it a matter of loopholes — or proof that global capital

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Sudan Drowning in Blood and Hunger, by Blade Runner – 31 October 2025

Darfur is engulfed in atrocity, with famine, mass killings and displacement now defining what remains of Sudan’s revolution. The city of El Fasher in the

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One Target at a Time: The Logic That Helped Israeli Liberals Commit Genocide, by Yuval Abraham – 20 October 2025

From +972 Magazine By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the

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The Making of a Crisis: Unpacking Sudan’s Neglected War, by Husam Mahjoub – 15 October 2025

In one of its most important facets, Sudan’s war is a war against the revolution that began in December 2018 and endures in the daily

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Interviews

“In the Western European Left, There’s a Desire To Put up a Wall and Ignore What’s Happening in the East”. Interview with Denys Gorbach – 3 October 2025

Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) is a sociologist. The research from his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) is contained in the book ‘The Making

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War and Extractivism – A View from Sudan and Congo – 26 September 2025

Two activists from Sudfa (a media outlet founded by Sudanese exiles in France) and Génération Lumière (a decolonial ecology association founded by young Congolese people

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Russia Is Turning to African Women and Conscripted North Koreans to Tackle Its Defence Worker Shortage, by Jennifer Mathers – 24 September 2025

US president Donald Trump has said Ukraine could win back all of the territory it has lost in the ongoing war, but Russia’s president Vladimir

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Interviews

Seven Questions on Sudan’s Conflict and Politics. Interview with Eiad Husham – 20 August 2025

Eiad Husham is a Sudanese journalist whose investigative reports and insightful analyses have appeared in numerous outlets, including Sudans Post, Ayin, Al Jazeera, The New

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The War About Everything in Sudan, by Eisa Dafallah, Moe Kandaka, Khaled Al-Waleed Abdulrahman, Mahasin Dahab and Rahiem Shadad – 16 August 2025

The war in Sudan is often flattened with numbers, shorthand and labels that suggest it’s both too much and too petty to resolve. Even the

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How War Became Israel’s New Normal, by Asaf Yakir – 13 August 2025

It is a mistake to think that Benjamin Netanyahu is solely responsible for Israel’s genocide or that removing him would bring it to an end.

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‘Our Genocide’: Israeli Rights Groups Abandon Their Restraint on Gaza, by Shatha Yaish – 31 July 2025

From +972 Magazine After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now

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Asim Munir’s Promotion to Field Marshal Signals an Authoritarian Pakistan, by Salman Rafi Sheikh – 25 July 2025

From Himal Southasian After Pakistan’s military “win” in the May 2025 confrontation with India, the army under Asim Munir as field marshal has even greater

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Weaponizing the Female Body in Warfare, by Yulia Nightingale – 23 July 2025

In what ways do women’s bodies become both targets and instruments of war? How is this connected to the patriarchal logic underlying warfare? And how

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Haftar and Hemedti: Patriots or Pawns in Trans-Saharan Business Interests?, by Musab Mohamed Ali Hassan Alnaser – 21 July 2025

From Atar: Sudan in Perspective The Haftar-Hemedti nexus rests on a shared ideology that scorns centralised state authority in favour of personal loyalty networks and

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Fabric of Resistance: Women’s Activism in Times of War, by Liliya Vezhevatova – 2 July 2025

How has women’s activism in Russia changed since February 24, 2022? Why have women-led, grassroots initiatives become one of the few resilient forms of resistance?

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Articles

The War from the Sky: How Drone Warfare Is Shaping the Conflict in Myanmar, by Su Mon – 1 July 2025

In Myanmar — where over four years of fighting since the 2021 coup has killed at least 80,000 people — aerial warfare has been crucial

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Dossiers

Perspectives on the Iran-Israel War – 24 June 2025

On this page we document some dissident and alternative views on the conflict from social movements in Iran and its region.

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Interviews

Beyond Geopolitics: Why Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Really About Capitalism in Crisis. Interview with Ivan Bakalov – 21 June 2025

Ivan Bakalov is a researcher and expert on Russia’s political economy. He argues that Russian capitalism hit its limits after the economic crisis of 2008-2009.

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Articles

On Turkey’s Reaction to the Israel-Iran War, by Selim Koru – 16 June 2025

It’s hard to write about something like this. Events are moving very quickly, and it’s difficult for us mere mortals to stay on top of

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Statements

Iranians and Israelis Call for Ceasefire and Diplomacy – 16 June 2025

We, Iranians and Israelis, share grave concerns for the future of our countries and the region. Israel and Iran have been engaged in indirect conflict

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Israel’s Greatest Threat Isn’t Iran or Hamas, but Its Own Hubris, by Orly Noy – 15 June 2025

From +972 Magazine A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and

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Podcasts

Drone Wars – 14 June 2025

An ominous buzzing in the sky. Swarms of killer AI drones. Fields of fiberoptic grass. The weird future of drone warfare is here. The conflict

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Articles

Disarmament, Ukrainian-style, by Adrian Ivakhiv – 3 June 2025

Recall that Ukraine disarmed in 1994 in exchange for security assurances by Russia, the US, and the UK, assurances that ultimately weren’t kept. By reportedly

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Statements

Urgent Call for Peace by Indian and Pakistani Feminists – 11 May 2025

The ceasefire is just the first step in the long walk to justice and peace We, feminists from India and Pakistan, unequivocally welcome the ceasefire

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Articles

Victory Day: Three Interventions from the Left, by the Posle Editorial Collective – 7 May 2025

What do the lessons of WWII mean today? What stance should the international left take towards its legacy? And is it possible to resist the

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Overcoming the Rivalry Between Military Blocs in Europe, by Grigory Yudin and Ilya Budraitskis – 8 January 2025

What might a lasting peace look like from the leftist perspective? Upon what principles can a just European security architecture be established? In their report,

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Articles

October 7th in Comparative Perspective, by Tom Khaled Würdemann – 24 October 2024

This article analyzes the crimes committed by Hamas in Israel on October 7th through a comparison with other historical massacres. This can give us a

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Articles

‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza, by Yuval Abraham – 3 April 2024

From +972 Magazine The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human

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Q&A: Navigating the Left’s Ukraine Debate, by Bill Fletcher Jr. and Elly Leary  – 15 November 2022

“Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis”—and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s

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Book reviews

Review of Andrew B. Liu’s ‘Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India’, by Jairus Banaji -30 March 2021

Andrew B. Liu is an associate professor in the Department of History at Villanova University (Pennsylvania, USA). His research interests include modern China, South and

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